It seems every single big game these days does really big numbers, simply every big game and by that I mean games that get a decent amount of advertising. Won't be any shock about that but it's weird how publishers struggle even when most of them have games which can do 3+ million with ease. Mortal Kombat basically shipped most of that in one region, I think it dropped off the charts in the PAL regions. Already getting ready for PAL threads where we get info on how FIFA 12 is bigger than Jebus and MW3 is the second coming. It has got to be something like huge advertising budgets which means so many publishers struggle right? For example I've seen BF3, MW3 and Gears 3 adverts during football games months ago, shit can't be cheap.

Mortal Kombat was always extremely popular, even when people considered the game to be shitty (but Midway couldn't survive on the back of one single franchise), so it was a given that this one was gonna sell great since it felt more like classic MK =)

Originally Posted by schick85

Wow at the 3 million. Japanese aren't even into the MK series.

Fighting games haven't sold that great in japan for while. US/EU are the main market for the genre.

Yes, so many people forget about this when talking about NPDs. In so many podcasts I hear people disappointed at like 500k NPD sales for example, but they are totally missing that NPD is US only and that if it sold 500k on the NPDs, it probably sold over a million copies overall.